A former South American football official has been acquitted of a corruption charge stemming from the Fifa bribery scandal.

Jurors found Manuel Burga, the 60-year-old former president of Peru's football federation, not guilty of a single racketeering conspiracy charge.

Burga wept when the acquittal was announced.

After the verdict, he came out of the courtroom and said: "God Bless America. That's all I can say."

Burga said he would go home and resume a career as a lawyer that had been largely left behind for the last 15 years during his career as a football executive.

"My history in soccer is finished," he said. "I'll go back to the law."

On Friday, jurors told US District Judge Pamela Chen they were deadlocked on Burga's case but had reached guilty verdicts on multiple charges against two other former officials: Juan Napout, of Paraguay, and Jose Maria Marin, of Brazil. Chen gave jurors the weekend to think about Burga's case.

The judge had jailed Marin, 85, and Napout, 59, after their convictions on Friday. The two were acquitted on some lesser charges.

Marin, Burga and Napout had been arrested in 2015. Prosecutors accused them of agreeing to take millions of pounds in bribes from businessmen seeking to lock up lucrative media rights or influence hosting rights for the World Cup and other major tournaments controlled by Fifa.

Burga was the first person to be acquitted among the more than 40 people and entities in the world of global football charged in the US in connection with an investigation that uncovered hundreds of millions of pounds in bribes and kickbacks. Of those, 24 pleaded guilty in addition to the two convictions on Friday.

World soccer's governing body had said last week it would seek compensation and a share of the cash.

"As the jury has found a number of defendants guilty of the charged crimes, Fifa will now take all necessary steps to seek restitution and recover any losses caused by their misconduct," according to a statement from Fifa.

During the trial, the defence argued that the men were innocent bystanders framed by untrustworthy cooperators angling for leniency in their own cases. Burga's lawyer claimed there was no proof he took bribes.

"I would submit to you that never has more been made of less evidence," said Burga's lawyer, Bruce Udolf.

Early in the trial prosecutors claimed Burga unnerved the government's star witness, a former marketing executive from Argentina, by directing a threatening gesture at him - running his fingers across his throat in a slicing motion.

The lawyer claimed his client was merely scratching his throat, but the judge took the incident seriously enough to tighten Burga's house arrest conditions.